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Author:   Sadan Jha (Centre for Social Studies, Surat) ,  Dev Nath Pathak (South Asian University, Delhi, India) ,  Amiya Kumar Das (Tezpur University, Assam)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury India
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic India
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9789390252633

ISBN 10:   9390252636
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 April 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgements 1. Introducing Neighbourhood: Reading the Urban Backward and Forward - Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak and Amiya Kumar Das Part I: Spatial Religiosity and the Making of Neighbourhoods 2. Sacred Anchors in Contemporary Neighbourhoods: The Case of Jain Religious Institutions in Ahmedabad - Gauri Bharat 3. In Search of a Neighbourhood among the Kashivasis: An Ethnographic Account of an Ashram in Banaras - Anakshi Pal 4. Gossip and Intra-Denominational Politics in a Christian Neighbourhood in Greater Kolkata: A Sociological Reflection - Abhijit Dasgupta Part II: Dalit Neighbourhoods: Histories, Subjectivities and Contestation 5. Locating Dalit Bastis: The Sites of Everyday Silent Resistance and Works from the Late 19th-Century to the Mid-20th-Century United Provinces - Vijay Kumar 6. Making of the ‘New City’: The Overlapping Structures of Caste and Class in Post-Partition Delhi - Akanksha Kumar Part III: Engendering Neighbourhood: Female Neighbours and Contested Subjectivities 7. Living Like Friends and Neighbours: Everyday Narratives of the Neighbourhood - Joyashree Sarma 8. Home-ing the World and World-ing the Home: An Understanding of Singlehood, Rental Housing and Neighbourliness - Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana 9. Paros and Parosan: Spatial Affectivity and Gendered Neighbourhood in South Asia - Sadan Jha Part IV: A House in a Neighbourhood: Planning, History and Aspirations of Housing 10. Government Officer Housing Precincts in Urban Lucknow: A Construction of Urban Exclusivity through Occupation-defined Neighbourhoods - Sonal Mithal 11. Neighbourhoods in Space–Time: A Case of House Prices and Latent Aspirations - Yugank Goyal and Harini Shah 12. Whose Neighbourhood Is It Anyway: A Spatial History of Urban Patna - Sheema Fatima Afterword: ‘Neighbours’ as Neighbourhoods - AbdouMaliq Simone About the Editors and Contributors Index

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Sadan Jha is Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat. Dev Nath Pathak teaches sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi. Amiya Kumar Das teaches sociology at Tezpur University, Assam.

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